Investment

Chairman of the People’s Committee of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho Vo Thanh Thong had a working session on October 3 with Abe Masayuki, Director of the Vietnam Agricultural Information Centre (VAIO) on the development of the ideal model farm project in the locality.

Currently, there are 98% enterprises in Hanoi declaring tax online, in which 95% of the enterprises pay tax online. As such, with many solutions being implemented to reform the tax procedures and increase the quality services, Hanoi is one of the leading cities in Vietnam with the number of online tax declaring and payment.

A conference was held in Berlin on October 2 to promote investment in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa as part of the working trip to Germany by senior officials from the Vietnamese province.

The third Vietnam-Japan trade and cultural exchange programme and fifth annual Mekong Delta investment forum will be held in Can Tho City in October and November to lure more investment in trade and services from Japanese businesses.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh has suggested key pepper growing provinces such as Dak Nong, Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Binh Phuoc and Dong Nai have more policies to encourage and create favourable conditions for businesses to invest in large-scale pepper production with high quality and efficiency.

The Ministry of Planning & Investment is drafting a decree to specify investment for innovation start-ups, which is expected to create a legal framework for innovation start-ups and supporting policies for this activity.

A team of experts from Samsung will support three Vietnamese firms in improving their competitiveness and capability to join the supply chains of Samsung and the globe.

In addition to ideas, business model, start-ups will need other decisive factors such as personnel, strategy and capital.

The Office of the Hanoi People’s Committee has just released the Official Letter No. 9029/VP-KGVX on asking relevant departments, sectors and People’s Committees of districts, suburban districts, town to organize Life Learning Week 2017.

Under the Official Letter 4677/UBND-KT dated September 25, the Hanoi People’s Committee requests Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and People’s Committee of districts and towns to implement the project on building infrastructure in safe vegetable production zones.

According to experts in real estate, investors with understandings of the market and not so large investment at the beginning, investors can still make a sizeable profit with condotel right at the center of Hanoi with advantage of economic viability.

A trade conference took place in the southern province of Dong Nai on September 27 with the participation of more than 80 Japanese-invested and local enterprises.

Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) reported that Vietnam attracted 25.4 billion USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first nine months of 2017, up 34.3 percent year on year.

On September 27, the Ministry of Industry & Trade, along with the Embassy of Germany in Vietnam and Siemens have jointly held the conference “Smart cities”.

On the occasion of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s recent visit to Vietnam, the Vietnam-Hungary Business Forum took place in Hanoi to enhance investment opportunities for both nations.

The information is released by Vietnam`s Ministry of Planning and Investment

Cooperation in shipbuilding between Vietnam and India was the focus of discussion at a workshop jointly hosted by the Ministry of National Defence, the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), and the Embassy of India in Vietnam in the northern port city of Hai Phong on September 25.

The Government is concerned about the poor coordination and infrastructure undermining the major development potential of Vietnam’s 11 central localities, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue told 500 business people and officials at the 2nd Central Coastal Economic Forum in Da Nang on September 25.

The Russian Centre for Sciences and Culture of the Embassy of Russia in Vietnam and the Saint Petersburg State University have jointly organized a workshop in Hanoi to promote Vietnam-Russia trade ties and encourage Russia`s investment to Vietnam.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has allowed the Hanoi People’s Committee to choose the investors for a pedestrian flyover along the city’s ringroad No 2.